5Synonyms found for inferiority

Word Origin & History

inferior early 15c., from L. inferior "lower," comp. form of inferus (adj.) "that is below or beneath," from infra "below." Noun meaning "a person inferior to another in rank, etc.," is from c.1500. Inferiority complex first attested 1922."The surrender of life is nothing to sinking down into acknowledgment of inferiority." [John C. Calhoun]

Example Sentences for inferiority

Eddie's deficiency as a tragic character is not a matter of social inferiority.

Off course no inferiority complex was apparent in this thread.

Unless you admit inferiority and the inability to think.

Quite often, a moral higher ground is imagined by those trying to hide inferiority complexes.

Welsh suffered from the same inferiority complex but managed to overcome it.

But that is at the same time a measure of its inferiority.

Please put inferiority and superiority complexes into perspectives.

The second generation was born and went gone to school here, and they suffer from a quite serious inferiority complex.